Before we begin, if you haven’t already done so, you may wish to check that
you have all the Prerequisites installed on the platform(s)
on which you’ll be developing blockchain applications and/or operating
Hyperledger Fabric.

While we work on developing real installers for the Hyperledger Fabric
binaries, we provide a script that will Download Platform-specific Binaries to your system.
The script also will download the Docker images to your local registry.

Hyperledger Fabric intends to offer a number of SDKs for a wide variety of
programming languages. The first two delivered SDKs are the Node.js and Java
SDKs. We hope to provide Python and Go SDKs soon after the 1.0.0 release.

Hyperledger Fabric provides an optional
certificate authority service
that you may choose to use to generate the certificates and key material
to configure and manage identity in your blockchain network. However, any CA
that can generate ECDSA certificates may be used.

We offer four initial tutorials to get you started with Hyperledger Fabric.
The first is oriented to the Hyperledger Fabric application developer,
Writing Your First Application. It takes you through the process of writing your first
blockchain application for Hyperledger Fabric using the Hyperledger Fabric
Node SDK.

The second tutorial is oriented towards the Hyperledger Fabric network
operators, 构建你的第一个网络. This one walks you through the process of
establishing a blockchain network using Hyperledger Fabric and provides
a basic sample application to test it out.